Shanree
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.08.29 20:15:00 -
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I'm way late in replying to this thread as, though I'd heard of the Ambulation project some time ago, when it was first announced, and thought "Oh, very cool...", I was deeply into another MMO and basically hadn't played Eve in a while.
That said, I was quite psyched to hear about the prospect of getting out of my ship, walking around those huge space stations that, as of now, only hint at activity going on (vehicles going back and forth, walkways sloping up to who-knows-where...), and I'd often sat looking around the stations wondering, "So... what would they do in these huge stations? I imagined people living and working, shopping... going about their lives, with these huge ships "pulling in" and docking was just a normal day-to-day thing. I'd think, "wouldn't it be cool to be able to actually walk around these stations..." I never actually thought it would happen since Eve was a strictly space-oriented game.
So, needless to say, the news of this Ambulatory system was quite cool. I was kinda expecting some kind of rudimentary "get out and walk around the space stations" type of deal, but nothing too ambitious. It hadn't occurred to me just how "all out" CCP would go on this. Needless to say... I'm impressed. And psyched.
I think it's going to add a lot more depth to an already really deep game, along with more opportunities for interaction, brought to a more "personal" level. Rather than communicating from between ships zipping around a huge universe, which tends to feel kind of cold and impersonal, we'll be able to get out of those ships and meet in a meeting room, or a bar, etc. That's an extremely cool concept to me. I think it has the potential to do some great things in terms of community.
I do agree with the emotes/jumping and all that... I don't see a necessity for any of that here. It would just seem out of place to me. These are supposed to be real people existing in an alternate universe... not elves and gnomes frolicking happily through some colorful fantasy forest.
So yeah... Very cool stuff, indeed.
Can't wait to see this implemented.
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